It beat out a lot of competition. The second and third spot were taken by North Conway, N.H. and Steamboat Springs, Colo. Jasper was not the only Canadian spot to make the Top 10 list. Rossland, B.C. came in at No. 6 and Nelson, B.C. came in at No. 10.

“It doesn’t come to us as a big surprise,” said Brian Rode, vice-president of the Marmot Basin ski area.

“Jasper has always maintained that authenticity, that real comfortable feel,” he said. “It’s an unpretentious kind of a feel here in Jasper; that’s what people like, that is what people keep coming back for.

“We’re in a national park. There is nothing wrong with a purpose-built resort, but we’re sort of the antithesis of that.”

A skier takes some air of a run at Marmot Basin in Jasper National Park in a handout photo.

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The upper mountain at Marmot Basin in Jasper National Park opened up earlier this week. Photo taken on Wednesday November 18, 2015.

A map of the Marmot Basin ski and snowboard resort in Jasper National Park, Alberta.

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A map of the new Tres Hombres area at Marmot Basin ski and snowboard resort in Jasper National Park, Alberta.

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A photo showing the new Tres Hombres area at Marmot Basin ski and snowboard resort in Jasper National Park, Alberta.

Marmot Basin

“People feel comfortable when they get here for the first time,” Rode said. “After a day or two, we hear this all the time from international travellers: ‘Wow, I feel so welcome here. It’s not overly commercialized by any means, and yet I can still go out to a lot of great restaurants.'”

For anyone heading to Jasper in the near future, Rode pointed out that two-thirds of the mountain runs at Marmot Basin are open and the conditions are great right now for people who love groomed slopes.

Watch below: Some Global News videos about Jasper, Alta., and the surrounding areas.